That John Martin

I’ve been using the FeedDemon 2 beta for a while now and overall I’m really happy with it. The new templates are excellent, as are the improvements to feed management, like hierarchical feed preferences and persistent per feed styles. I do have a couple of gripes though.

The new tree control is a little annoying - only a single branch can be opened at a time, so jumping around looking for something is a hassle. I’m also not quite sure how to manage the news bins. It seems difficult to access and manage individual items.

The other thing that just doesn’t work for me is the attention report. The basic algorithm that Nick uses looks pretty good, and I can see some “worthy” feeds bubbling up, but there is far too much noise from the high traffic feeds.

Shouldn’t the calculated attention value be divided by the number of items in the feed? That way a feed wouldn’t be able to improve it’s attention ranking by sheer brute force. I guess that’s just giving you a different number, and a different type of ranking, but it feels like it would be more valuable.

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